Hypothesis Statement and Statistical Testing: A Tutorial

Abstract

Many researchers and beginners in social research have several dilemmas and confusion in their mind about hypothesis statement and statistical testing of hypotheses. A distinction between the research hypothesis and statistical hypotheses, and understanding the limitations of the historically used null hypothesis statistical testing, is useful in clarifying these doubts. This article presents some data from the published research articles to support the view that the is format as well as the will format is appropriate to stating hypotheses. The article presents a social research framework to present the research hypothesis and statistical hypotheses is proper perspective.